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Willow Pond Stable’s Lennox the Grey notched his first graded stakes win by a nose last out in Colonial Downs’ Grade 3 Old Dominion Derby, and will look to keep the G3 success rolling in Saturday’s $200,000 Hill Prince, a 1 3/16-mile inner turf route for sophomores, at Belmont Park.
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The Hill Prince is slated as Race 10 on Saturday’s 11-race program, which also includes the inaugural running of the $175,000 Bricks and Mortar in Race 8. First post is 12:05 p.m. Eastern.
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Trained by Arnaud Delacour, the Liam’s Map gray is 2-for-3 at Colonial for his conditioner after making his first two starts with Catherine Day Phillips last summer at Woodbine Racetrack. Lennox the Grey made his first start for Delacour with a neck second in a one-mile turf allowance in July ahead of a deep-closing 3 1/4-length win from 9 1/2 lengths back in a similar tilt on Aug. 1.
Last out in the nine-furlong Old Dominion Derby on Sept. 7, Lennox the Grey set a pressured pace through splits of 24.57 seconds, 50.80 and 1:15.54, and turned back the reopposing Chambersville before The Big Con briefly took the lead on the inside, but Lennox the Grey put his nose back in front in a final time of 1:49.77, earning a career-best 84 Beyer Speed Figure for the win.
“It was definitely a good effort,” Delacour said. “He showed plenty of tactical speed in his previous races, and on paper there wasn’t tons of speed, so I thought he’d end up if not on the lead, then at least close. He inherited the lead and didn’t go too fast and was a good boy. He settled very well and finished strongly, so we couldn’t ask for any more.
“He’s the kind of horse that gets distracted easily, so he was kind of goofing around with the horse on the outside [Chambersville], and when the jockey asked him to really run, I’m not even sure he saw the horse on his inside,” he added. “He’s still a bit immature, but he came with a good run and galloped out really well, so that’s why I was pretty confident that we could add a little more distance if we wanted.”
Delacour said he would expect Lennox the Grey to be prominent again in the Hill Prince.
“I’ll speak to the jockey and come up with a game plan, and hopefully we’ll be not too far from the pace or on it,” Delacour said. “I think he’s matured all summer, so hopefully we’ve got him at his peak and we can take a step forward.”
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A $130,000 purchase at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, Lennox the Grey is out of the Awesome Again mare Satisfaction, a half-sister to G1 winner Dancing Forever that produced graded stakes-placed stakes winner Miss Yearwood and G2-placed winner Tuggle. The deep family also includes Satisfaction’s half-sister Castanet, who produced G3 winner Carrumba – dam of this year’s Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Golden Tempo.
Antonio Fresu has the call from post 4 [8-1 ML].
Delacour will also be represented in Saturday’s seven-furlong $175,000 Bricks and Mortar at Belmont with John Roven’s Kentucky homebred Six O Clock, who cuts back to less than one mile for the first time in his sixth lifetime start.
The sophomore son of The Factor was last seen setting the pace and fading to third-of-8 in a 1 1/16-mile allowance on Aug. 27 at Colonial, and looks to earn his first score against winners in the Bricks and Mortar. He graduated on debut going one-mile over the Tampa Bay Downs turf in April, where he tracked in second and pounced to the 4 1/4-length score over the firm footing.
“That’s the key [the cutback], that’s why we’re there,” Delacour said. “I think it’s the perfect distance for him. We’ve tried going a bit longer and he was just too aggressive and didn’t really finish his races. We always thought he had a lot of tactical speed – maybe not five-furlong sprinter speed, but the seven furlongs could work. It’s a much tougher race, but we’re going to take a shot and evaluate him at seven furlongs.”
Dylan Davis will pilot Six O Clock from post 6 [15-1 ML].
Last week, Delacour sent out Mark Grier’s G3 winner Evershed to earn a career-best 93 Beyer with a solid third-place effort to Kathynmarissa in the 10-furlong G2 Flower Bowl on Oct. 1 here. The 4-year-old daughter of Churchill outran her 32-1 odds with a rallying finish that saw her land 1 1/2 lengths back of the winner and just three-quarter-lengths back of runner-up Sunlit Uplands.
Delacour said he was proud of Evershed’s effort, and that she could look to the 1 3/8-mile G3, $250,000 Long Island on Nov. 28 here next.
“It was very good and it looks like every start this year has been a move forward,” he said of the winner of Saratoga Race Course’s G3 Waya in August. “That was only her third race of the year, so I think we still have a pretty fresh filly going into the fall, which is nice. The Long Island is definitely an option. She’s won the Waya at the same distance and I think she’ll appreciate it. I don’t know if we’ll do anything in between, but I’m very happy with how she came back.”
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This story was originally published October 9, 2026 at 10:45 AM.